Space Exploration Word Search
Space exploration got its start with Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which reached orbit in October 1957. Rockets, landers and crewed missions have followed for close to seventy years.
Space Exploration word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- astronaut
- launch
- mission
- nasa
- orbit
- rocket
- rover
- satellite
- space
- telescope
Space Exploration word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- apollo
- astronaut
- discovery
- launch
- mission
- moon landing
- nasa
- orbit
- probe
- rocket
- rover
- satellite
- space
- space station
- telescope
Space Exploration word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- apollo
- astronaut
- curiosity
- discovery
- hubble
- lander
- launch
- mission
- moon landing
- nasa
- orbit
- probe
- rocket
- rover
- satellite
- space
- space station
- sputnik
- telescope
- voyager
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Words in the Space Exploration word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- rocket
- Machine that pushes payloads and people into space.
- space
- Everything beyond the thin air around our planet.
- launch
- Sending a spacecraft up from a pad on Earth.
- mission
- A journey with goals, from flyby to landing.
- orbit
- Steady path a spacecraft keeps around a world.
- satellite
- Machine placed in orbit to watch or relay signals.
- astronaut
- Trained person who travels beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- moon landing
- Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon in 1969.
- nasa
- American agency behind Apollo, Hubble and many rovers.
- telescope
- Lets us explore distant worlds without leaving home.
- rover
- Wheeled robot that drives across another world's surface.
- probe
- Uncrewed craft sent to study a distant target.
- apollo
- Program that sent crews to the Moon six times.
- space station
- Crewed laboratory kept in orbit around Earth.
- discovery
- Space shuttle that flew thirty nine missions.
- voyager
- Twin probes launched in 1977, now beyond the planets.
- curiosity
- Car sized rover exploring Mars since 2012.
- hubble
- Orbiting telescope taking sharp pictures since 1990.
- sputnik
- First artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
- lander
- Craft built to settle gently on a surface.
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